Hey fellas, sorta off the topic of surf boards here, but I was thinking about making a post in the old 'audio tutorials' thread with a few new tutorials, but the last message in there is from '06, and that'd be a pretty big bump. Anyone know of a more recent thread or reckon it's okay to just throw it in there and disturb a few dead corpses?

I have been using FL studio for a while, and there's no such thing as a good guitar plug-in or vst, whatever they are. Can I plug in my guitar to the computer and use one of the amps provided (or find different amps online not necessarily the ones already on FL)

What is the cable needed? Do I need to hook it up to an amp and then a computer or can I go directly from my guitar to the computer?

At 9/19/11 08:15 AM, AJtheRipper wrote:
I have been using FL studio for a while, and there's no such thing as a good guitar plug-in or vst, whatever they are. Can I plug in my guitar to the computer and use one of the amps provided (or find different amps online not necessarily the ones already on FL)

First off, there definitely is a good guitar plug-in, there's a tonne I can name, the first one coming to mind being Steinberg Virtual Guitarist, and then there being Ministry of Rock by East/West which serves as a good VST sorta thing but costs a pretty penny.

For AMP vsts FL Studio comes with a VST called Hardcore, it's not very good but Native instruments released an awesome amp vst called Guitar Rig, which is awesome.

VSTs are .dll files, if there isn't an installer then you need to put the .dll in the plugin directory. The default folder path is C:\Program Files\Vstplugins, if you haven't changed it yourself it will be that folder.

Once you do that, add a new channel in the step sequencer but select the option "More...". A list of all the plugins show up and at the bottom there is a button that says "Refresh", click it and select the "Fast scan (recommended)" option.